Pop Quiz | Day One

February 23, 2026December 25, 2024 by Jon Chadwick

Day One of Seven. Each day will feature 8 questions, a total of 56. I have tried to pick as wide a range of music as possible, from different eras and genres so that no-one is disadvantaged by having rubbish taste in music. Peace on earth and goodwill to everyone. Even goths.

Today has a festive theme.

Pop Quiz Day One

It's Chriiiiistmaaaas!

1 / 8

"Mary's Boy Child" has been Christmas number one twice, for which 2 acts?

Harry Belafonte and Boney M

Johnny Mathis and Boney M

Harry Belafonte and Johnny Mathis

2 / 8

Who has this year's Christmas Number One?

Sir Ed Davey and the Young Carers Choir

Sir Keir Starmer and the Granny Harmers

Wham

3 / 8

Which legendary boyband is performing this ludicrous Christmas single?

Boyzone

This isn't a real band, it's a spoof written by Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield, the actors with the goatees later played the the main orcs in the Hobbit movies

East 17

4 / 8

Paul McCartney had the Christmas Number one 8 times in different guises. Which Wings song was Christmas Number one in 1977?

Mull of Kintyre

Give Ireland back to the Irish

Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time

5 / 8

"Last Christmas" by Wham was kept off the top spot when it was first released by Band Aid, in which year did it first become the Christmas number one?

2013

2003

2023

6 / 8

Bohemian Rhapsody was Christmas number one twice, in which 2 years?

1965 and 1981

1975 and 1991

1985 and 2001

7 / 8

"Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd was an unlikely Christmas Number one, but what distinction does it hold?

It was the last Christmas Number One of the 1970s

It was the first Christmas Number One of the 1970s

It was the only single Pink Floyd ever released

8 / 8

This is the all time classic "I Believe in Father Christmas" by Prog Rock overlord Greg Lake. But which piece of classical music does it borrow from?

Pictures At An Exhibition by Mussorgsky

The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky

Lieutenant Kije by Prokofiev

Your score is

Pop Quiz | Day One

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